CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE LIMITED

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

RSM UK Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Noting the strength of the balance sheet, the likely trading scenarios and the controls in place these accounts have been prepared on a Going Concern Basis.”

Group structure

1. CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE LIMITED · parent
   1. CAMRA Limited 100% · England & Wales · Dormant

Significant events

• “The 2025 Government announcement was a devastating blow for pubs. Business rates were set to sky rocket, threatening pubs existence, jobs, affecting on breweries and devastating communities.”
• “In Northern Ireland we saw a refusal to modernise its licensing system, including not changing the 'surrender principle'.”
• “Scotland has slashed its business rates discount from 40 percent discount to just 15 percent, while in Wales the situation looks sadly familiar, with The Welsh Government confirming the 40 percent business rates relief for pubs in Wales will end in April 2026.”
• “Unfortunately, in 2025 we had to take the very difficult decision not to run national festivals, due to losses sustained at Great British Beer Festival, with other emerging financial issues including the office move and also our membership base not growing.”
• “CAMRA has now moved to its new office and warehouse in Luton. The warehouse offers so much more space and will allow us to better service our festivals and merchandise.”
• “At year-end 2025, our member number stood at 143,038; the rate of decline has increased to 5.1%.”
• “A staff restructure took place in 2025 which was an unsettling time and means there is less resource available.”
• “The decision has been taken to no longer run either national festival.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

18

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +6.4%

  £8,868,464 → £9,438,637

• Cash

  -66.4%

  £1,895,474 → £636,228

• Net assets

  -23.5%

  £3,711,379 → £2,840,498

• Employees

  -2%

  50 → 49

• Operating profit

  -84.3%

  -£451,894 → -£832,879

• Profit before tax

  -192%

  -£270,650 → -£790,290

• Wages

  +7%

  £1,745,916 → £1,867,913

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers